Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden

Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden

by Randall Jarrell
4/5
(14 votes)

''To read Randall Jarrell on W.

Auden is to read the best-equipped of American critics of poetry of the past century on the best-equipped of its Anglo-American poets, and we rush to read, perhaps, less out of an academic interest in fair judgment than.

Format
178 pages, Hardcover
First published
2005
Publishers
Columbia University Press
Subjects
Auden·W h 1907-1973·Criticism and interpretation
Language
English

This 136 page series of lectures, a bravura treatment of a poet's work which has yet to be deciphered fully (delivered at Princeton University in 1952-53) is interesting because it is a provocative close reading of a poet by a poet (and critic). Jarrell's lectures, addressed to an invited audience, assume we (they) have read Auden and that we now his work well.

Randall Jarrell

About Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) wrote eight books of poetry, five anthologies, four children’s books illustrated by Maurice Sendak, four translations, including Faust: Part I and The Three Sisters (performed on Broadway by the Actor’s Studio), and a novel, Pictures from an Institution. He received the National Book Award for poetry in 1960, served as poet laureate at the Library of Congress in 1957 and 1958, and taught for many years at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He was a member of the American Institute of Arts and Letters....

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